Weekly Insider Selling To Buying Ratio: 565x

It has been a while since we refreshed the relentless insider selling rush. So it was good to see there were no surprises in the latest Bloomberg reported S&P 500 insider selling and buying. In the week ended May 6, there was $1.2 million worth of purchases, primarily in PBCT and NDAQ (some insider seems to think there is a possible upside catalyst here, ahem NYSE-deal), with a total of 10 insider purchases in the week. This was offset with a meager 165 insider sales, totalling $650 million, for a selling-to-buying ratio of 565x. The biggest selling occurred in GOOG, Praxair, Waters Corp, Campbell and Equity Residential. And while there are those who claim it is perfectly normal for insiders to cash out promptly without regard for the message sent to other shareholders, even Barrons' noticed the massive spike in selling in recent weeks, noting that any selling to buying ratio over 20 is bearish based on its limited universe of stocks. So, what about 565?

Furthermore, corporate buybacks are more influential on stock price than insider buying/selling (in most cases). 2010 was a near record year for corporate buybacks, and, as of March 2011, corporate buybacks were up over 50% from 2010.

Front running, clearly makes market manipulation fixing a snap. You can swap share ownership between your downtown and uptown offices faster than any middlemen can intercept the trades. All at no commission.

ah. thanks alex. not a bad portfolio i must say. i would replaced the Bernanke Futures with physical Bernanke (locked up in the woodshed like the gimp). I would perhaps increase the gold position and add an apartment building or 5 in vegas.

Yeah, pretty close, but you missed my silver miners (NYSE:SIL) and that some of my physical silver is held by Eric Sprott in a country with a conservative government (NYSE:PSLV). I plan to realocate when I figure out how to short my mortgage ;) .

And here to your left we have one aspect of hyperinflation. Insiders sell forcing the Bernanke to print more money to buy them up to keep the ponzi going so that insiders are incentivized to print more options to sell to the Bernanke etc etc.

If they could only bring the scheme to the next level, talk of a debt target ceiling would be irrelevant.

Naw, ZH investors hold all sorts of things besides silver and gold. You forgot bullets, tins of meat, and nylons, so our ladies can look fine on the back of our ride as we tool along through the nuke blasted desert.